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D. S. THOMPSON.

GARTER SLIDE.

No. 311,691. Patented Feb. 3,1885,

DNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DON S. THOMPSON, OF VEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WEST HAVENBUCKLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GARTER-SLIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,691, dated February3, 1885.

Application filed December 15, 1894.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DON S. THOMPSON, of West Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inGarter-Slides; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

IQ and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a face view of the slide as applied to the garter; Fig. 2, avertical section on line a, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a horizontal section 011line 2,- Fig. 4, a face View of the slide detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in slides for garters,specially adapted to gentlernens garters, the object being to constructthe slide so thatthe strap may beturned downward in a vertical line andthe slide serve also as a means for securing the free end of thedownward extension after ithas passed through the loop of the clasp, andalso as a means for engaging the hook on the strap 2 around the leg; andthe invention consists in the construction of the slide, as more fullyhereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

The slide, as seen in Fig. 4, is made from 0 fiat sheet metal. It isconstructed with two horizontal slots, a b, each in width correspond ingto the width of the garter-strap, and is also constructed with a slot,d, at right angles to the slots ab and in a position outside of one 5end of said slots. A fourth slot, 0, through the plate GXtBDClSflOIHnear the upper end of the vertical slot downward toward the oppo- (Nomolcl.)

site end of the horizontal slots at an angle of about forty-fivedegrees. Through the plate, outside this diagonal slot, is an eye, f.This 40 completes the construction.

The garter-strap A is introduced from the back side of the plate throughthe vertical slot 01, thence returned through the diagonal slot e,

which gives a turn to the strap thus passed through the diagonal slot atright angles to the main part of the strapthat is, substantiallyparallel with theslot d-B, Fig. 2, representing this downward run of thestrap. The strap is then passed through the loop 0 of the clasp,returned upward in rear of the plate, thence outward through the slot1), thence returned through the slot at. This interlacing oi the freeend of the strap secures the said free end, thereby holding the clasp inits proper rela- 5 5 tion to the slide. The other end, D, of the strapis provided with a hook, E, which, passed around the leg, is engagedwith the eye f, as seen in Fig. 1. By this construction the downwardlyprojecting portion of the strap may be readily adjusted through theslots to b to give the required length, and the downward extension ofthe strap is held in its proper relation to the strap around the leg.

I claim The herein-described slide, consisting of a plate constructedwith two horizontal parallel slots, at b, the slot d at right angles tosaid horizontal slots, the diagonal slot 6, and with the eye f,substantially as described.

DON S. THOMPSON. Witnesses:

Jos. G. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY.

